He Qiaomei told my wife that she had been sleepy in two months.
I remember that during the Spring Festival, her husband came to Toronto to visit relatives from China. When he was eating together, he still felt that the new crown epidemic in China would spread to so wide.After her husband returned to China in early March, the development of the new crown epidemic in North America turned sharply.Now all the schools in Toronto are changed to the Internet lesson. She takes three children alone, watching the rising infection and death numbers every day.I want to go back to China to avoid it, but now there are only few flights every week. The ticket is not only a sky -high price, but it cannot be bought.Not to mention the risk of flying back to China with three children, and it has to be isolated for fourteen days after returning.Rather than prepare for the supplies to leave home, find a way to survive this time.
There are many air -flying families like her family in Canada. The government calls them a satellite family (Satellite Family): The wife and their children enjoy a good education and relaxed living environment in Canada.The pillar of the pillar, and regularly visit relatives in Canada.This choice can also be understood. After all, for most people in middle -aged immigrants, it is difficult to find a professional professional work in Canada, and income is often not as good as the original level in China.
However, as soon as the new crown epidemic broke out, the pace of life in the air was immediately disrupted by the immigration ban of governments.If the action is fast, the previous reunion will be relieved.The slow movement may be like He Qiaomei. The couple can only help each other through the Pacific Ocean.
Even the fast -moving air -flying families actually have their own difficulties.
In late March, which has basically controlled the epidemic in China, Mr. Liao Ning asked her to fly back to China with her children as soon as possible.But the son who had already attended high school was resolutely unwilling to go back.On the one hand, children grew up in Canada from an early age. After returning to China, they will face the restrictions on the Internet visiting overseas social networks. The child is equal to being completely isolated from his familiar environment and friends.The quality of the connection is poor, then it will definitely affect the results of the next semester.In Canada, the grades of high school grades are the core considerations for applying for universities.The results of the whole semester are completely unacceptable to the child.In particular, considering the complexity of the epidemic and the continuous travel ban, it may have to stay for three months or even half a year as soon as it goes back, so this decision is very entangled with adults and children.In the end, Liao Ning decided to accompany her child to resist with the heart in Canada, waiting for the new semester of September in September to be opened.
The most tangled should be Shen Yuhan.She accompanied her children to Toronto as overseas as an overseas.With the help of my wife, they found a top and elegant local schools, and paid tuition tuition for tens of thousands of Canadian dollars.Now that the new crown epidemic, in her words, it has completely become two ends.The current online lessons of the school are like sheep, and the effect is far worse than the original classroom teaching.But she couldn't return to China with her children. The previous domestic status had been canceled. Now that she returned to China to contact new schools and re -insertance to school.
Children always have to go to school.At first, I was determined to accompany the children to take the education route in North America. I just started to adapt to the English learning environment here, and immediately faced whether to return to China to avoid the epidemic.If you choose to go back for a few months, the previous time and hard work will be wasted, which is a painful choice for every family of all overseas students.
Different from local residents, for Canadian visitors who accompanies their children like Shen Yuhan, medical care depends on tourism medical insurance.In case of infection with new coronal virus in Canada, even if there is no need to rescue, the upper limit of tourism medical insurance may not pay for all medical expenses.At that time, she didn't know what to do.
As many Chinese families go abroad through immigration or study abroad, there are many, many families like He Qiaomei, Liao Ning and Shen Yuhan in Canada, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.They are the beneficiaries of globalization, but they will soon face the victims of adverse globalization.
When globalization is continuously deepened, many families with high education or net worth of high wealth may use the way of immigrants or study abroad.Good educational resources.This was once an appropriate lifestyle that was envied by many people.
But when the new crown epidemic, the unprecedented highlight of the globalization wave is unprecedented, forcing these families around and right before and right must clearly choose one side and give up aside.Especially when developed countries in the West adopted a completely different epidemic response strategy and brought huge differences in effects, the final choice where to fight this century plague also reflects the identity of its own characters: I think myselfFamilies in foreign countries have been tied up in a foreign country, and they will stay in their own home to wait for the impact of the spread of infectious diseases. They believe that they are just passengers in a foreign country and immigrants who are still in China. They will choose the whole family to return to China to avoid the risk of upcoming.
These two options are divided into right or wrong, but when each immigrant gets the test question from the new crown epidemic, it may be aware of the meaning behind the choice: this heart is in my hometown.
Back globalization is not just after the emergence of the new crown epidemic.Today, the conflict between trade conflicts and the trust and willingness of cooperation from politics to economy to environmental protection from politics to economy to environmental protection. The global public health crisis brought by the new crown epidemic is just a detonation point that suddenly accelerates the sudden acceleration.
If the adverse globalization has only appeared in the political and business fields before, as the virus has continued to spread globally, the adverse globalization has now begun to deeply affect all families of cross -border life.Even if the epidemic eventually passes, this impact may not disappear quickly.
In the world pattern that starts to become increasingly alienated, for those immigrant families between the mother and residents, they need to answer such questions early or late: Where do you choose where your home, your home.
The former CFO Ms. Meng Wanzhou's family was also such an air -flying family.The difference is that her gentleman cares for her children in Canada, and Ms. Meng takes the role of hard work in China.Of course, during the bail period in the past year, Ms. Meng and Mr. and the children were fortunate to be together.In the face of the threat of the epidemic, Ms. Meng's family does not need to choose like other air -flying families.
Remarks: He Qiaomei, Liao Ning, and Shen Yuhan are all the pseudals of the author's friends.
